The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-11-21

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point is not only toemollate the criticisms
OF the well against those in poor health,
but to show christian people who are
atrebllarious what is the matter with them.
DO not charge against the heart the crimes
OF another portion of your organism. Do
not conclude that because the path OF
heaven Is not nrbored with rs fine foli-
age, or the banks beautifully. showed
under with exquisite chrysanthemums as
once, that therefore you are on the wrong
road. The road will bring you out at the
same gate whether you walk with the
STRIDE oil mn athlete or come mp on crutches.
! thousands OF christians, morbid about
their experiences and morbid about their
business, and morbid about the present,
and morbid about the future, need the
sermon am now preaching.
| Another practical use OF this subject is
for the young. The theory is abroad that
they must first SOW their wild oats, and
aiterward Michigan wheat. Let me break
tho delusion. Wild oats are generally
sown in the liver, and they can mover be
pulled up. They NO prcoccupy that organ
that there is no room for the implantation
OF righteous crop. You SEQ aged men
about us at eighty, erect, agile, splendid,
grand old men. How much wild oats did
they SOW between eighteen years and
thirty? None, absolutely none God does
not very often honor with old age those
who have in early life sacrificed swine on
the altar OF the bodily temple Remem.
Der, o young man, that while in after life,
and after years OF dissipation, you may
perhaps have your heart changed, religion
does not change the liver Trembling and
staggering along these streets today are
men, all bent, aud dccayed, and prema-
turoly old, for the reason that they are
paying tot liens they put upon their physi-
cal estate before they were thirty BY
early dissipation they put ON their body n
first mortgage, and second mortgage,
aud third mortgage, 10 tho devil, and
these mortgages are now being forcclosed,
and all that remains Of their earthly estate
the undertaken will soon put out Of sight.
Many years ago, In fulhllmcnt Of my text,
u dart struck through their liver, and IL IL
there yet. God forgives, but outraged
| physical law never, never, never. That
hus Sinai, but no Calvary. Solomon, in
my text, knew what he was talking about
lie had in early life been pronign,c, and
he rises up on his throne Of worldly SPLEEN
dor TO shrek ont warning 60 all the cen
turtles. David, bad in early life, but good
in later life, cries out with nm agony Of
earncstnesg Remember not the sins Of
my youth
stephen A. Douglass gave the name Of
'squuttcr sovereignty 10 those who went
out west and took possession OF lands and
held them by right Of prcoCcup0tion. let
a flock Oi sins settle ON your heart before
you get 20 twenty-five years Of age and
they will In all probability keep possession
Of II 10y nm Internal squatier sovereignty.
Il promise 10 pay Ut tile bank $500 six
months from date, says the promissory
note. Iprumise Ia pay my life thirty ycar
irum date ut The bank OF the grave, snys
every iniraclion Of the laws Of your physi-
cal being
what viii mans body mover Gem.
plotcly recover from early dissipation I'm
this world? Never. How about the world
"a conner Perhaps God will fix II mp in the
resurrection body 80 that IL will not have
10 20 limpiug through all eternity, but get
the liver thoroughly damaged aud IL will
| stay damaged. Physicians call il cancer Of
the liver, or hardening OF the liver, or cir
rhosis OF the liver, or inflammation Of the
liver. or fatty degeneration Of the liver,
but Solomon puts all these pangs into one
figure aud siyE till tho dart strike
through his liver
"llcsiod seemed 10 have some hint Of
this when lac represented rromcthcu5 for
his crimes fastened Ia pillar and nm eagle
deciding ON his liver, which was renewed
| again each night. NO that the dcyouring
went on until finally Hercules slew the
eagle aud rescued promelhcus And dis
spatcd early life assures a fcruiiy pCcking
away aud Cnwing away nj the liver year
in and year ont. aud death IL the unly Her
a
or uuclcnCh Ia claw. 30, also, Ntgil aud
Homer wrote fables about vuliurrs prey
ing upon the liver. but Thorn arc tioac
here today With whom IL is mo- fable, but
| terrible reality.
THAT Young man smoking cigarettes
and smoking cmrs has no idea that lac "
| getting for himself smoked liver. That
| young mnn has no idea tina, he has, by
early dissipation, ~ depleted his oncrgra
that be viii 30 into the battle only half
armed. Napoleon Loot Waterloo DAYS he
fore Il Wa fought Had he attacked the
English urmy before II was reinforced. and
taken II division by division, he might
have won the dny, but hc waited until lee
lac had only 100000 men an,inst 2OO,uOn
And here u n young man who, u he
put VII his forces nniinHt the regiment ui
youthful temptations, IN the munglh IL
Gdd might drive them back, hut hc " al
lowing them IN hr reinforced hy the whole
army 81 middle life temptations, and when
Ill iiit-r combined iorCcs nru mnssCd
against him. aud no Grouchy comes la
help him, and llluchcr has come Ia help
his foes. what but immortal defeat can
await himG
"Oh, my young brother. do not make
the mistake that thousands oil around you
aro making in opening the battle against
sin too late What brings that express
train from - Louis into Jersey City thrue
h0un lalc7 They lost fifteen minutes
early on the route. and that affected them
OIL the WY, and they hni 10 bc switched
OF here nnd switched of ihrrc, and lie.
tanned here anil drtt.ncd thrr', and the
man who loss time and strength w the
earlier part Oi the journey oi lilo will sui
Ger Tor " ~ tho way through, The hn,t
twenty ycar u life damaging the follow.
ng 10y ycap.
Some years AGO scientific lcctuur
went through the country exhibiting on
great canvas different parts NJ the human
body when healthy, and different PARIS
when dis asUd. And what the Wurll
wants now u somc eloquent srirniisi a. ~
through The country. showing 10 our Young
people, on blazing rsuYls. the drunknrl y
liver, the idlyr'H liver. The libcftucs liver.
the gamblers liver. Perhaps ihcspcrinrlc
might stop some Young man buiun hc
comes Ia the same catastrophe and thu
darn strike through hi own liver.
my hoavr this ls the dmt scunOn YOU
have heard ou the gospel oi health, anu Ia
may hc the last YOU will ever hear On that
subject, and charge you. In the name IT